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August 2011

77 posts

HP TouchPad Answers Critics

The HP TouchPad came on to the market with two main criticisms, first the lack of apps, and second, pricing was on a par with the iPad 2. Even with these two points, most reviews gave the TouchPad the number 2 tablet slot for WebOS's ease-of-use. A month on from the TouchPad's launch, much of the original criticism can be

CloudApp and Cloud2Go

You are writing a post and you want to add an image, audio or video file, one way to do that is to link to the to the file URL. What do you do though if the file you want to use is on your desktop, iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. One solution is to use CloudApp which is available

Kindle Cloud Reader

Recently Apple began to enforce it’s in app purchase policies which prevents ebook readers such as the Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook from linking out to their own stores and so avoid paying Apple 30% of the purchase. If you had the Kindle app downloaded from the iTunes on your iPad and did the latest update you will have noticed

GNC #695 Free Speech Watch

Thank you for your amazing support of the show. At 695 Episodes they are as exciting for me to do as the day I recorded the first one. Do you have a prize you would like to donate for show #700. Several companies have already stepped up and we are going to have a huge giveaway pool of gadgets and

Yahoo Steps Up Image Search

Yahoo announced today that they are enhancing their image search.  It has a new tiled interface, a "latest" tab for trending results, a "galleries" tab, and Facebook integration that displays pictures from your friends with your results.  The biggest change is, perhaps, the way clicked images are displayed.  According to the Yahoo announcement: "By clicking on any image on the

Make Money with GoDaddy Starting Today!

Have you been thinking of starting you own online business?  What I have for you is a unique offer to become a GoDaddy Domain Reseller. While I personally do not have my own re-seller account as it would be a conflict of interest to do so being they are a direct sponsor here, I know a couple of folks that

Social Media Propaganda

Aaron Wood is selling these thought-provoking social media propaganda posters through Etsy. They're brilliant on so many levels, bringing wartime effort to Big Brother and a line that is so close to being crossed without us even knowing. There are nine posters in the series, so check them all out and buy one. V

Boxee on the iPad

Today Aug 9, 2011 Boxee released Boxee for the iPad. This allows you to play videos from the home screen of Boxee on your iPad and also local video which are on the same wireless network. After you install Boxee on the iPad and sign in, you will see your Boxee home screen, which shows the videos your friends are

GNC #694 No Constraints

I talk about constraints tonight, you will notice show is 1:23:00 I have realized I have been feeling constrained and rushed with the 1:10:00 limit I imposed on myself. Unless I get a barrage of email begging me to go back the show is going back to a semi un-constrained time limit. Are you a Fan of this show or

Read it Later

Most mornings when I wake up I usually have over 500 post in my favorite feed reader. Clearly I am not going to read all of them so I skim through them and then save those that look interesting to Read it Later. Once I am finished skimming my feeds I then can go to Read it Later and read

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